The south side of Odell needs it own post. Looks at the old workers’ cottages above, and then also look below. Remember the old miners’ houses in the Tower Grove South Coal Diggings? This house is above is almost identical. More coal mines were near here, after all. But of course, there are some amazing…
Tag: Clifton Heights
Odell Street Between Ivanhoe and Tamm Avenues, North Side
One block south of Marmaduke Street is Odell, which is one of the most fascinating long blocks in the City of St. Louis. Odell was originally named Cleveland in the Breezy Heights Subdivision, but due to the possible confusion with the street of the same name further east, it was renamed. It is lined with…
Tamm Avenue Between Marmaduke and McCune Avenues
Let’s head south on Tamm Avenue, which is perhaps most famous in Dogtown, but here it is an orphan street that also doglegs through this area (if this sentence makes any sense). There’s these sort of weird Mansard-roofed houses, but I don’t know if I would actually call them Second Empire or not. I guess…
Marmaduke Avenue Between Ivanhoe and Tamm Avenues
Laid out in 1885, the eastern portion of Breezy Heights (I looked at the western portion cut off by the interstate recently) typified suburban living in the late Nineteenth Century with no alleys, and large lots–and different street names originally and long blocks. We’ll look at Marmaduke first, which is the street two down from…
Southwest Avenue and Environs, Clifton Heights
I’ve been interested in the old Manchester Road, which is now named Southwest Avenue, for awhile now. I looked at another section of this street back in August of 2021. This is in Clifton Heights, so there are some really old homes, and some more recent ones built in the Twentieth Century. The rolling topography…
Former Clifton Heights Public School
I knew there was something up with this building, which is now the headquarters of the Service Employees International Union. It clearly had been a much older structure with a Modernist update in the central portal. Sitting on Clifton Avenue, which apparently used to be Old Manchester Road, this was Clifton Heights Elementary School, and…
Clifton Heights, Revisited
Clifton Heights is one of the most beautiful, and hidden neighborhoods in the city. It’s worth checking out if you’ve never been. I made it back one evening, as the light was failing, and remembered how well Julius Pitzman’s adaptation of the natural rolling hills turned out.
Simpson Terrace, Clifton Heights
Here and there, tucked away off of quiet streets, are little lanes with just a few houses. Clifton Heights, designed by Julius Pitzman, was a planned suburb, laid out over steep hills with winding streets. And it seems, in a couple of places, there was a little bit of land left over for Simpson Terrace.
Incline Bricks, Clifton Heights
I saw these bricks on a steeply inclined street in Clifton Heights, and I realized they have little treads in them, no doubt to give traction for vehicles. Very unique, and I have never seen them before.
Clifton Heights Houses
The wide variety of housing stock in the Clifton Heights neighborhood is fascinating, particularly because so many houses are built of wood, and not brick or stone. The houses look like something you would see in Kirkwood or Webster Groves, with large lots and even original garages behind many of the houses. My favorite house…